A non-negativity preserving and well-balanced scheme that exactly preserves all the smooth steady states of the shallow water system, including the moving ones, is proposed. In addition, the scheme must deal with vanishing water heights and transitions between wet and dry areas. A Godunov-type method is derived by using a relevant average of the source terms within the scheme, in order to enfor...

The aim of this work is to analyze the use of a number of flux-limiters to simulate numerically the behavior of a homogeneous tubular reactor which exhibits steep moving fronts. The strength and limitations of five different flux-limiters are examined for different test cases. All flux-limiters are found successful in capturing the steep concentration profiles. The simulations show that the min...

Burgers’ equation with uncertain initial and boundary conditions is approximated using a polynomial chaos expansion approach where the solution is represented as a series of stochastic, orthogonal polynomials. Even though the analytical solution is smooth, a number of discontinuities emerge in the truncated system. The solution is highly sensitive to the propagation speed of these discontinuiti...

We present a theoretical solution for the Riemann problem for the five-equation two-phase non-conservative model of Saurel and Abgrall. This solution is then utilized in the construction of upwind non-conservative methods to solve the general initial-boundary value problem for the two-phase flow model in non-conservative form. The basic upwind scheme constructed is the non-conservative analogue...

We focus in this study on the convergence of a class of relaxation numerical schemes for hyperbolic scalar conservation laws including stiff source terms. Following Jin and Xin, we use as approximation of the scalar conservation law, a semi-linear hyperbolic system with a second stiff source term. This allows us to avoid the use of a Riemann solver in the construction of the numerical schemes. ...

We are interested in the numerical approximation of discontinuous solutions non conservative hyperbolic systems. An extension to second-order a new strategy based on in-cell reconstructions deal with this challenging topic is presented. This combination first-order reconstruction standard MUSCL-Hancock reconstruction. The allowed particular capture exactly isolated shocks and keep property. Mor...

2.1 Examples of conservative schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.1.1 The Godunov Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.1.2 The Lax-Friedrichs Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.1.3 The local Lax-Friedrichs Scheme . . . . . . . ....

This paper concerns the numerical schemes describing solute transport in fissured systems which are characterized by the tectonic blocks and spatial repartition of hydraulic properties with dual permeability structures composed of highand low-permeability blocks of the chalk aquifer (Northern France). Both advection and diffusion mechanisms are taken into account. The novel mathematical approac...

An unsteady two-dimensional numerical investigation was performed on the viscous flow passing through a multi-blade cascade. A Cartesian finite-volume approach was employed and it was linked to Van-Leer's and Roe's flux splitting schemes to evaluate inviscid flux terms. To prevent the oscillatory behavior of numerical results and to increase the accuracy, Monotonic Upstream Scheme for Conservat...

Aims. This work presents a new hydrodynamical algorithm to study astrophysical detonations. A prime motivation of this development is the description of a carbon detonation in conditions relevant to superbursts, which are thought to result from the propagation of a detonation front around the surface of a neutron star in the carbon layer underlying the atmosphere. Methods. The algorithm we have...